YouTube owner Google has been forced to act quickly to fix a flaw on it’s YouTube video sharing website that allowed hackers to bombard users with pop-up messages, redirecting them to adult websites. The code was placed in the comments section of targeted videos and would run automatically when people watched the clip.
Highlight Text On Websites With Wired-Marker For Firefox
Web browsers, unlike text editors, do not have initial tools to highlight or mark text on websites. Probably not a problem on the average 500 word page but helpful if the word count goes up considerably. Imagine working on a 200 page document on a website, might even take a day or two to read [...]
Add these handy bash aliases for efficiency
“In the beginning was the command line” is not the just name of a great book by Neil Stephensen (read the text here), but a way of life for many Linux users. The command line is the tool for just about any level user. However, the power user takes the command line to newer and [...]
How To Get An Ultra-Compact Windows Task Manager
Windows users can open the task manager with the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-Shift-Esc, or by selecting its entry in the context menu after right-clicking the taskbar in the operating system. Those who have tried to reduce the size of the task manager window have without doubt noticed that it has a fixed minimum size that prevents [...]
Automatically Minimize Windows After Inactivity
Most computer users work with a basic set of programs most of the time. Some of these programs are active most of the time, web browsers or games for instance, while others, like email clients are mostly inactive and only activated at times. Inactive windows and programs can take up valuable screen space. Most users [...]
Tweak Internet Explorer, Toolbar, Restrictions, Settings
Tweak IE is a free program to change various settings in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. The portable software displays a list of available tweaking sections in its sidebar on launch, among them toolbar, control panel and restriction tweaks. A click on a section opens configuration pages that list various options that can be changed in the [...]
Top 3 Virtual LAN Gaming Apps
Remember LAN gaming? Gaming on Local Area Networks was the way to play back in the 90s. You had to haul all your equipment to your friends or a central location if you were not lucky enough to have enough computer systems standing around for the weekly game of Quake, Half-life or Starcraft. Most games [...]
100 % free Linux distributions
On this, July 4, 2010, the day the United States celebrates the signing of the Declaration of Independence, I thought I would take a moment to celebrate that same day with a toast to those Linux distributions that shirk all non-free software. This means EVERYTHING on these distributions is protected under, at least, the GPL. [...]
List Of Software That Crashes Google Chrome
Google employee Blair has posted a list of software applications that are known to crash the Google Chrome web browser. Among the list popular applications such as PPLive, Nvidia NTune, SpeedBit Video Accelerator or Folder Guide. The suggested course of action is to temporarily disable the program to see if it resolves the crashes. Google [...]